In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.